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This happens to people w Schizophrenia & other Serious Brain Disorders all over our country. Ask yourself, would this happen to someone with a Brain Tumor instead??
We Can Do Better. Solutions Exist...
1/5 https://vcreporter.com/2020/07/a-failure-of-care-one-familys-harrowing-journey-reveals-inadequacy-of-mental-health-services/
We Can Do Better. Solutions Exist...
1/5 https://vcreporter.com/2020/07/a-failure-of-care-one-familys-harrowing-journey-reveals-inadequacy-of-mental-health-services/
Solution 1: End the IMD Exclusion that prevents Medicaid Federal Matching $ for any facility w >16 beds for people with “mental diseases.” Put Quality Controls in Place & Enforcement to ensure hospitals do more than medicate & warehouse people. 2/5
Solution 2: Create more First Episode Psychosis Programs to allow people to be educated about the brain disorder: both the patient and the families, so that more collaborative, supportive and compassionate care can be initiated. 3/5
Solution 3: For the very small percentage of people who have true Anosognosia, where the frontal & parietal lobes of the brain are affected so the person is unaware of their own illness, we need Assisted Outpatient Treatment & Mental Health Courts. 4/5
Solution 4: We need supportive community housing w collaboration with CCBHC’s (Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers) to provide wrap around care to help engage w the people w serious brain disorders to stay in treatment to help their brains to heal.
#TreatmentB4Tragedy
#TreatmentB4Tragedy
If we say we live in a civilized society, we need to fund caring, compassionate, collaborative care without trauma for the patients, all along the continuum of care.
@MentalIllPolicy “Being in Psychosis is not a right to be protected, it is an illness to be treated.”
@MentalIllPolicy “Being in Psychosis is not a right to be protected, it is an illness to be treated.”
